We have a bit of business to do in Canberra so are here for a couple of days. After arriving we set off for an exercise walk (ie no stopping for long periods to look at birds or take photos). I was just able to keep up, with a few wind-sprints to catch up when the rules were transferred to the guideline column!
The first image is the walking track under some oaks outside the National Library.
This was a surprisingly unpopulated image. Most of the time there were hordes of people around, many of whom had dogs with them. Also a few cyclists who appeared to believe they were about to win Paris-Roubaix and thus behaving as though they were on a velodrome: Muppets.
This is a work titled "Holden On" by Robert Fielding: it is part of the indigenous art Triennale at the National Gallery and according to a sign on the edge of the Lake is challenging the politicians up the hill to do better. Fair call.
Back at the apartment I pointed my Peak Finder app to the North and got this result. I knew Mt Majura but not the others.
The following morning I took a more standard photo showing the same hills.
Being on a winner I turned the Peak Finder to the East. I was particularly pleased to see Mount Molonglo get a tick as that used to be a good landmark when we lived at Carwoola, on the far side of it.
And the equivalent snap
Later I went in the other direction (NW) starting at Mount Coree.
The big slope on the RHS is part of Black Mountain! I will add a "normal" image once it gets daylight. I didn't wait for daylight but snipped this ...
.. from a wider image.
All was normal for a Civic street with a noisy street sweeper going along Bunda St (all the garbage trucks had gone much earlier - they clatter around between 3 and 4 am.
Looking to the North the sky was fired up.
We began our final day with a walk around the suburb of Reid, right on the edge of the City Centre. It was interesting to find some Fairy Toadstools on the nature strip in a couple of places. There are exotic trees planted here but not that close to where the fungi were
Quite a few areas have camellia hedges which are brightening the area.
A lot of fallen leaves also.
Our main activity was a couple of very enjoyable games of croquet at the Canberra Croquet Club in Barton. This squad of Straw-necked Ibis were finding nutrition on the lawns of the Hyatt Hotel.
We dashed back to the apartment and packed the Jetta to head for Mallacoota, hoping to arrive home before the roads became full of browsing marsupials. The process was not aided by roadworks which bunched everyone up behind the two blue trucks. We didn't get away from them until Cooma - some 50 km later.
We then encountered a few folk who drove erratically varying from 85kph to 110kph until we turned off on the road to Bombala. A brief works pause just South of Bombala itself. After that matters were more normal with the next significant impediment not occurring until Mount Drummer on the Princes Highway. Note the red traffic light.
We have seen elsewhere a set of lights fixed on red with the "Go" signal being when the controller waves his "Slow" sign in front of it.
The cause of this part of the work appears to be a landslide during the deluge in early April rather than planned work to prevent slides elsewhere.
There was a brief stop at the planned work.
Some protruding rock is being left, presumably well attached to bedrock.
Despite the delays the trip only took the usual 4:15. Perhaps we compensated by not needing a comfort stop at Bombala?
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